Enrolled my two teen agers in high school recently. Interesting thing I learned about their school lunch program, Unlike middle school, there are several different lunch lines, one line is the basic lunch that costs $2.00 for the payers and free loaders alike, other lines for optional food items such as pizza, burgers etc. (the good stuff).
Kids who have the “free” lunch pass are not allowed to use their pass to “buy” items from those lines, even if they have cash to pay with. Kids who have a balance on their cards that parents have paid hard cash for, may purchase as much as they want from among the “extra” items.
I love it but am wondering how long it will be before some lib starts hollering discrimination.
We live in a very conservative area. In a high school population of about 3,000 there are probably fewer than a dozen “minority” kids.
“I love it but am wondering how long it will be before some lib starts hollering discrimination.”
That’s what I was basically thinking—although not just on the alternative food choice plan this school has. Wait for somebody like Sheila Jackson Lee to claim that these so-called “healthy” lunch menus are really discriminating against minorities who eat different food as a matter of their culture. (The only thing stopping it so far is the fact that the Mooch created this thing. But I’m sure the left can work out a weird argument that it’s not her fault.)
We live in a very conservative area. In a high school population of about 3,000 there are probably fewer than a dozen “minority” kids.
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You don’t have to be minority to be on the cheap school lunch, just have a single mom often helps.